Excelsior Correspondent
POONCH, June 6: Shamsher Hakla Poonchi a prominent Gujjar leader has appealed the Government to frame strong policy for ensuring functioning of mobile schools running in J&K for Gujjar-Bakarwal Tribes.
In an appeal to Lt Governor, Manoj Sinha he sought his immediate attention towards the issue keeping in view the problems faced by nomadic children for continuing their education.
He said Gujjar and Bakarwal Tribes are educationally, economically, socially and politically backward.
Hakla said that the half settled and unsettled Tribes of Gujjar Bakarwal people along with their belongings, families and cattle go to the heights of hills and mountains for grazing their animals where they live for six months of Summer every year.
He said that the many years ago, the Government of J&K had opened mobile schools for the children of Gujjar Bakarwal Tribes and those schools had to stay at these places where Gujjar
Bakarwal people reside during the Summer so that these children could get proper education and during Winter, these mobile schools had to move down the plains where Gujjar Bakarwal Tribe resides during this season.
Unfortunately, nowadays many mobile schools do not move with these Tribes during Summer, because of which the education of the children of Gujjar Bakarwals Tribe has suffered. Many mobile schools have been converted to stationary schools and nowadays only few mobile schools are left due to which the community is far behind in the field of education. The previous State governments had failed in ensuring the functioning of mobile schools in J&K.
Hakla urged to the Lieutenant Governor to frame strong policy for ensuring the proper functioning of mobile schools in J&K for half-settled and unsettled nomadic people of Gujjar-Bakarwal Tribes.
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